Suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimimay not have been calling his campaign manager during the time he was allegedly enlisting her help to impede a police domestic violence investigation, but the two were texting each other, according to new court filings.

Phone records that Mirkarimi's attorneys recently allowed The Chronicle to review showed no calls between his cell phone and the mobile phone of his campaign manager, Linnette Peralta Haynes, from Dec. 31 - the date of the heated argument with his wife - until hours after the police had been called on Jan. 4. Text messages between the two were not among the records provided.

Haynes and Mirkarimi exchanged at least five text messages during that time, according to court filings by Mayor Ed Lee's legal team, which is seeking a court order for Mirkarimi's phone records, texts, e-mails and other documents as the mayor tries to have Mirkarimi removed from office for official misconduct.

Haynes has already turned over records under a mayoral subpoena that show the text communication, according to filings from the mayor's legal team.

The content of the texts between Mirkarimi and his campaign manager are unknown, but the mayor alleges that Mirkarimi enlisted Haynes to first persuade his wife, Eliana Lopez, not to go to police after an argument where he grabbed her arm hard enough to bruise it, and later to try and dissuade a neighbor who recorded a video of a Lopez tearfully talking about the incident. That neighbor, Ivory Madison, later called police.

Part of the mayor's explanation for witness dissuasion is that Lopez, within minutes of learning that Madison had informed police, had Haynes on her cell phone and handed the phone to Madison, who told investigators Haynes then tried to persuade her to not cooperate with police.

Attorneys for both Mirkarimi and Haynes deny any attempt to tamper with the investigation.

"The whole accusation that he dissuaded witnesses is based on manufactured innuendo and contrived evidence," said David Waggoner, an attorney for the sheriff. Mirkarimi didn't know about the video or that Madison had called police until about four hours after she had done so, his attorneys contend. That appears to have been an hour after the exchange where Lopez, with Haynes on the line, handed the phone to Madison.

Later in the evening, when Lopez in a text message urged her husband, then a supervisor and sheriff-elect, to use his "power" to stop the investigation, his first response is: "I cannot."

Haynes' attorney, Eric Safire, said his client has domestic violence counseling training and "certainly did not encourage Ivory Madison to do anything illegal."

Mirkarimi, in an interview with the San Francisco Bay Guardian, said it was only after he learned that police were involved that his wife brought up the idea of having Haynes "reach out to Madison about why she had gone to police and what could be done at that point."

But according to Madison, Haynes had already tried to pressure her to send police away. By the afternoon of Jan. 4, records show more than a dozen calls between Haynes and Lopez, including an almost 40-minute call before Lopez sends Madison a text saying she's not going to call police and another 15-minute call that appears to come just minutes after police show up at Madison's home while Lopez is walking out.